Hey everyone. Today we cover one of my all-time favorite book series. Book 1, The Little

Prince, follows an innocent, curious little boy as he wanders the universe. Book 2,

The Prince by Machiavelli, shows him grow up to be a

ruthless tyrant. We hope you like it. And this is The Book File, a comedy podcast about the best

of books and the worst of books. I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and the entire time I was preparing this episode of the podcast,

I could not get that spin doctor's song out of my head.

Wait, which song?

Their only song.

For those who know who they are, it'll hit.

Ha, ha, yes, I get the reference.

And I'm David Vance.

I think of both of these books as love stories,

either about love for a rose on an asteroid or for absolute power.

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The Lava City says, oh man, I'm so sorry.

We feel for your people.

Is that the place where it hit all you guys so hard that you were frozen to ash in an

instant? Yeah, that's the mean term that the neighbors used for Pompeii.

This one person escaped and the town that he made his new home all his neighbors are like oh look at lava city over

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